Texts
Tractatus de Purgatorio sancti Patricii
Incoming data
On the Purgatorium sancti Patricii and the vision of a knight called Owein
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Bruges, Public Library, MS 404
incipit: Patri suo preoptato in Christo domino .H. abbati de Sartis
f. 71ra–
MS
Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff. 1. 27/pp. 253-642, 41-72
rubric: Incipit prefatio de Purgatorio sancti Patricii
p. 568–
MS
London, British Library, MS Royal 13 B viii
incipit: Patri suo in Christo, preoptato domino ... Dicitur magnus sanctus Patricius Prologue and text.
f. 100v–
Sources
Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.
[ed.] Migne, Jacques-Paul [ed.], Saeculum XII. Eugenii III, Romani pontificis, epistolæ et privilegia, Patrologia Latina, 180, Paris, 1855.
Internet Archive – 1902 reprint: <link>
973–1004C [‘Henricus Salteriensis: Tractatus De Purgatorio Sancti Patricii Hibernorum Apostoli’] direct link
[ed.] Warnke, Karl, Das Buch vom Espurgatoire S. Patrice der Marie de France und seine Quelle, Bibliotheca Normannica, 9, Halle: M. Niemeyer, 1938.
An edition of the Latin text together with the French translation by Marie de France
[ed.] Colgan, John, Triadis Thaumaturgæ seu divorum Patricii, Columbæ et Brigidæ, trium veteris et maioris Scotiæ, seu Hiberniæ sanctorum insulae communium patronorum acta, Louvain: apud Cornelium Coenestenium, 1647.
comments: The title page reads in full (normalised spellng): Triadis Thaumaturgæ, seu divorum Patricii, Columbæ, et Brigidæ, trium veteris et majoris Scotiæ, seu Hiberniæ, Sanctorum insulæ, communium patronorum acta, a variis, iisque pervetustis ac Sanctis, authoribus Scripta, ac studio R.P.F. Joannis Colgani, in conventu F.F. Minor. Hibernor, Stritior, Observ., Lovanii, S. Theologiæ Lectoris Jubilati, ex variis bibliothecis collecta, scholiis et commentariis illustrata, et pluribus appendicibus aucta; complectitur tomus secundus sacrarum ejusdem insulæ antiquitatum, nunc primum in lucem prodiens.
Secondary sources (select)
MIRABILE, Online: Studio del Medioevo Latino, 2009–present. URL: <http://www.mirabileweb.it>.
abstract:
MIRABILE è un knowledge management system per lo studio e la ricerca sulla cultura medievale promosso dalla Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino e dalla Fondazione Ezio Franceschini ONLUS di Firenze.
Haren, Michael, and Yolande De Pontfarcy, The medieval pilgrimage to St Patrick’s Purgatory: Lough Derg and the European tradition, Enniskillen: Clogher Historical Society, 1988.
